BoxRec

Oleksandr Usyk (Gassiev fight) vs. James Toney (Jirov fight) at CW. Who wins?

like alp says, toney accomplished more at cruiser and has a higher ranking cruiser career than usyk. and being proven is what it's all about in these bouts

toney's bouts against excellent '10 round fighters' like wes martin and saul montana separate him from usyk and gave him the type of development and cruiser legacy usyk never had.

title defenses: 0
top 10 fighters beat: 1
unifications: 0
wes martin, saul montana, mike rush, sione 'son of james fryerson' asipeli: priceless

Realistically, Usyk's southpaw stance would give Toney more problems than Nunn at middleweight as Usyk would outbox Toney behind his southpaw jabs and combinations to take a decision or Toney would outjab the southpaw Usyk and countering him with good combinations to take a decision as it would be a great fight.

usyk wins a decision, james a bit too stationary

Since Usyk's Cruiserweight career is surely over, I will go ahead and give my 2 cents on this one.

Usyk wins a UD. Comfortably.

X2

Toney could win this if Usyk stood in front of him and traded in too many rounds. He wouldn't do that though. Instead he'd use his jab and lateral movement consistently hitting Toney with crisp 1-2's. At the bell I'd envision something like 117-113 Usyk.